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One piano, two pianos, four hands duets, eight hands quartets — this concert has it all. FWSO music director Robert Spano and his long-time collaborator Pedja Mužijević, pianist Shields-Collins (“Buddy”) Bray, President and CEO Keith Cerny, rush the stage for more than a dozen high-energy works for multiple pianists by composers ranging from Bach to John Cage and Schumann to George Crumb, with favorites like Saint-Saens Danse Macabre for two pianos, eight hands and Crumb’s “Celestial Mechanics” anchoring the program.

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Piano Stampede!

Kimbell Art Museum

Mozart composed his opera “The Magic Flute” as an allegory for the Masonic initiation. In this program, FWSO brass deliver a bright arrangement of the opera’s Overture as well as offerings by composers Oskar Böhme and Kevin McKee. Also on the program are Elliot Carter’s grave Sonata for Piano and Cello as well as one of Britten’s first published works, the rarely heard Phantasy Oboe Quartet.

Hidden Gems: Music by Mozart, Carter, Böhme, McKee, and Britten

The FWSO’s resident pianist, Shields-Collins (“Buddy”) Bray, needed a duet partner, and he found one in the ensemble’s President and CEO. Together, Cerny and Bray will tackle Bartók’s fiendish Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. Next, musicians from the orchestra perform Mozart’s G Minor quintet — a string quartet plus an extra viola — in which three dark, serious movements resolve in one of Mozart’s frothiest finales.

Buddy Bray and Keith Cerny

Stars of the Symphony is an evening celebrating the enormous talent of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra musicians collaborating together in virtuosic roles. In this performance, members of the orchestra take the spotlight, from clarinetist Stas Chernyshev and bassoonist Josh Elmore in Strauss’ Duett-Concertino and percussionist Nick Sakakeeny in Toshio Mashima’s Marimba Concerto to Shields-Collins “Buddy” Bray with Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.

Buddy Bray

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Apr 14, 2024

Piano Stampede! · Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra

Feb 11, 2024

Hidden Gems: Music by Mozart, Carter, Böhme, McKee, and Britten · Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra

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